Posted on 02/01/2014 4:01:08 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Amid severe drought conditions, California officials announced Friday that they would not send any water from the state's vast reservoir system to local agencies beginning this spring, an unprecedented move that affects drinking water supplies for 25 million people and irrigation for 1 million acres of farmland.
The announcement marks the first time in the 54-year history of the State Water Project that such an action has been taken, but it does not mean that every farm field will turn to dust and every city tap will run dry.
The 29 agencies that draw from the state's water-delivery system have other sources, although those also have been hard-hit by the drought.
Many farmers in California's Central Valley, one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country, also draw water from a separate system of federally run reservoirs and canals, but that system also will deliver just a fraction of its normal water allotment this year.
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That looks like Port Everglades.
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Will they still get farm subsidies to ‘not grow” crops without water ?
Those signs are a lot older and dustier now. Still there - drove past them last month. Oddly there are sections nearby which are obviously receiving water.
Your first 4 comments spoke volumes about your lack of knowledge about oil and gas and business in general.
Farmers with a "D" on their voter registration.
Lol..., that would solve the problem! The folks on the left coast are responsible for this mess...let them live with it. They just need to elect “ONE” more environmentalist wacko huh...?
BTTT!
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- The lingering effects of drought across the Great Plains in recent years have led to another decrease in the U.S. cattle herd"
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